New Location - Book Club Meeting: These Ghost are Family by Maisy Card

# Mocha Girls Read Los Angeles Book Club Meeting

📅 Date: Saturday, July 11
🕜 Time: 1:30 PM
📍 Location: Lore Bookstore

Join the Los Angeles Chapter of Mocha Girls Read for an afternoon of books, conversation, and community as we gather to discuss our July Monthly Book Selection, These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card.
As part of our 2026 Around the World reading theme, July takes us to the Caribbean. This month's selection highlights the experiences of a Jamaican family whose lives span generations, countries, and cultures, making it our official Caribbean read of the year.
Whether you have finished the book or are still reading, come prepared for a thoughtful discussion about family, identity, migration, generational trauma, secrets, and the lasting impact of the choices we make.

### About the Book

Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley.
And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead.
These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel’s decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the houseboy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley’s actions.
This “rich and layered story” (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a “beguiling…vividly drawn, and compelling” (BookPage, starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret.

We will be at the picnic table area. Bring a beverage and a sun hat.

We look forward to seeing you all.
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